The Artful Traveler Revels in Repetition

The rhythm of travel comes from repetition

Repetition the body’s way of becoming other, being’s rhythm

 

The way to difference—the only way—is repetition

Repetition already difference anyway

 

Habit frames the journey from beginning to end

From beginning to end every departure is from habit, every arrival returns to it

 

The adventurer fantasizes a total rupture from habit

Habit, however, conditions the very rapture so zealously sought by the ardent adventurer

 

The new arises between one repetition and another

Another turn (the question is, which one?) turns out the new

 

The traveler who has not learned to love repetition has not yet learned to travel

To travel to repeat what must be repeated till it has unraveled the traveler

How

 

 

 

does

 

 

 

 

 

 

repetition

 

 

 

 

wend

 

its

 

 

 

 

 

way

 

 

 

 

 

to

 

 

 

 

 

difference?